progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
August 6, 2012 Leave a comment
Pretty much every episode of this season’s Louie gives us something new. Last week, Louis CK chose not to open with any stand-up, but with a black-and-white sequence of an open grave. There’s a guy who has eyes like Robin Williams. And you know what? It’s Robin Williams. Or rather, it’s the character “Robin,” played by Mr. Williams.
February 26, 2012 3 Comments
Billy Crystal’s filmed opening was fine. The Oscars is an advertisement for Hollywood, and he gave them just that. Then he walked out in his tuxedo and I had a flashback to when I was a boy and first learned about the Oscars. “Those people look old,” I felt. I feel that again, tonight. And then Tom Hanks comes out and starts the broadcast by gesturing to an aged “seat holder” who has worked at the Oscars for 59 years. No amount of Justin Bieber is going to rid this thing of smelling like mothballs. Oh, look, Billy Crystal is doing his aging vaudevillian routine! Maybe if they let Scorsese’s grandchild take the stage?
